ICUs nationwide were already overwhelmed with chronically ill patients — many sick with Covid-19 and related illnesses — when omicron hit.
People who are unvaccinated or who have underlying conditions or diseases are still most at risk for serious illness.
The unvaccinated are the people who are dying in the ICU from Covid. That hasn't changed throughout all of this.An NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finds that Covid-related ICU hospitalizations are up by nearly one-third over the past two weeks. “Many of the patients that I see are patients whose diabetes are out of control,” said Dr. Joshua Denson, a pulmonary medicine and critical care physician at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. “Now they have Covid, which is what set off their diabetes in the first place to be out of control,” he said.